Get The Holiday Party Started Right with These Flavorful Wines and Spirits

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An Idea (by Ingenious Piece)

6 min readDec 17, 2022

Volume 6 of a 7-Part Holiday Gift Guide Series

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Let the celebrations begin. From Christmastime to New Year’s Day, keep the parties going and the drinks flowing with your favorite wines, spirits, and cocktails. This year’s gift guide features contemporary brands you’ll want to try for the first time as well as iconic brands that have stood the test of time for more than 150 years. And for your friends and family who forgo alcohol, they won’t skip the taste with these nonalcoholic beverages. As you make your way to your neighborhood package shop this holiday season, spread plenty of yuletide cheer by placing them on your must-get list.

Bombay Sapphire Jean-Michel Basquiat SPECIAL EDITION

Featuring brilliant American artist Basquiat’s iconic UNTITLED L. A. painting on the bottle, this gin’s tasting notes include juniper, citrus coriander, spices, and peppers which are integral elements of the ten exotic botanicals found around the world. Craft specialty cocktails for your yuletide party with these recipes.

Cakebread Cellars Treasured Classics Magnum

While entertaining this holiday season, serve your guests the 2018 Napa Cabernet Sauvignon Magnum with light bites prior to dinner. The 2021 Napa Chardonnay Magnum can complement select entrees and sides. The latter has aromas of ripe green and golden apple, accents of white peach and light oak, and flavors of apple, citrus, and pear. The former has notes of blackberry, boysenberry, dark chocolate, toasty oak, and dark fruit.

Bayab African Grown Gin

This premium copper distilled gin is comprised of African botanicals of Juniper berries, rosemary, coriander, course salt, cinnamon, lemon peel, orange peel, and Baobab fruit. Available in African Classic Dry, Burnt Orange & Marula, and African Rose Water, it is blended with water from Midlands Kwazulu — Natal. It is a part of the Spearhead Spirits company co-founded by Chris Frederick and Damola Timeyin. Create your favorite drinks with it and serve at festive socials this season.

Vusa Vodka

Having a smooth finish and filtrated only once using the shells of Baobab fruit, the premium copper, triple distilled sugarcane vodka is crafted on African soil. Also produced by Spearhead Spirits, this vodka’s makers us only the purest of water from the Lions’ River in KwaZulu Natal. Use it to make some of your favorite cocktails at the holiday soirees.

Beringer Vineyards 2020 Private Reserve Napa Valley Chardonnay

With notes of brioche, ginger spice, and vanilla, this wine will pair nicely with cheeses, chicken, and shrimp. Notice the aromas of jasmine, citrus blossom, lemon curd as well as flavors of pineapple, nectarine, and peach. Discover amazing recipes with their Napa Culinary Experience.

Livvy Hard Seltzer

Wine based and blended with real fruit juice, this hard seltzer has a blend of four botanicals — ginger root, prickly pear, licorice root, and dandelion root. With flavors that include Pineapple Hibiscus, Prickly Pear Lemonade, and Ginger Peach, this zero sugar beverage will be a welcome addition to the party.

Penfolds 2019 Bin 704 Cabernet Sauvignon and 2021 Bin 311 Chardonnay

This celebrated brand was founded in Australia in 1844. The Bin 704 has notes of red and sweet spice, cinnamon, rose water saffron, sumac, red currants, pomegranate, and Iranian barberries. Conversely, the Bin 311 has hints of lemon/lime aromas, flavors of white peach and lemon verbena, and scents of toasted cashew as well as almond nougat. Pair with these great recipes.

Martini & Rossi Vibrante, Fiero, Floreale

Alessandro Martini and Luigi Rossi introduced this iconic brand in 1863. Beginning as the National Wine & Spirits Distillery in Turin, Italy more than 150 years ago, today it is one of the most popular companies in the word. A holiday favorite for years, it has extensive offerings of L’Aperitivo, Riserva Speciale, sparkling wine, and non-alcoholic beverages. The Martini Fiero and tonic vermouth is a compilation of bitter-sweet orange, citrus, and crisp white wines. Having 100% fruity flavors with a fiery hue, it was created by Master Blender Beppe Musso. The Vibrante, a citrusy Aperitivo, and Floreale, a floral Aperitivo, are flavorful non-alcoholic beverages. Prepare super simple, refreshing cocktails with Martini Drinks.

19 Crimes Snoop Dogg Cali Gold

Your Christmas party and New Year’s celebration will be one to remember with Snoop Dogg’s first sparkling wine and third vintage with the 19 Crimes brand. The rap legend’s varietal is comprised of 10% Muscat Alexandria, 26% White Riesling, 28% French Colombard, and 36% Mixed White. Double the delight of your guest by offering the Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart 19 Crimes Limited Edition 2-pack featuring the Snoop Cali Red and Martha’s Chard.

Oxley Gin

The London dry gin makers invented the patented ColdCraft™ cold distillation method. Made at -5ºC in small batches to preserve and enhance the citrus flavors of 14 botanicals, it has zesty notes of Juniper. You can purchase special, individually numbered bottles of the gin. For ideas on creating the unique cocktails like the Oxley Classic Martini for this year’s party, check out Experiment with Oxley.

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